Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - August 11, 1961, Yuma, Arizona The Editor's Notebook By JONES OSBORN I am hopeful Hint some day we will be as a nation lo put the challenge of the Soviet tion into truer focus T SUN THE WEATHER I nt 11 n rn tt a liV Ai thu thi iht in in YUMA VOL 190 12 PAGES PER COPY lOc YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY AUGUST I 1 1961 PHONE SU ARIZONA 190 We arc still being told for example that the Soviets super- in outer space travel is un- important Frequently Soviet space achievements are compared with American production of consumer goods Within the past week for ple a political columnist oil with satisfaction that the whole satellite area has fewer tele- phones than our city of more He goes on to Total an- satellite automobile output doesn't match the Cadillacs we sell in a year It is true of course that duction of consumer goods has its place in any comparison between the two systems Premier chev himself recognizes the im- portance of consumer goods in his new plan Whether he iously intends to achieve its goals or not he gives consumer goods a higher priority in the Soviet scale of values Titov Reveals Parachuted East Germans Get Blank Halting Exodus But the point is that production of consumer goods is not a SUB- for scientific ment Ralph McGill the noted editor of ihc Atlanta Constitution put it this It will he too bad if we now have to undergo the folly of be- ing reminded that the Russians are far behind us in consumer and that lo be found in many Tt tion in peril if we are told not to worry because the Russians have almost primitive toilets houses are to of their cities a disservice to a Foreign Aid Passage Is Predicted WASHINGTON UPI forces were confident they could win the first showdown vote in the Senate today on dent Kennedy's billion for- eign aid Working closely with the White House the President's supporters expected to win a narrow victory over attempts by conservatives to pull the teeth from Kennedy's billion five-year authority for Treasury borrowing to finance economic development loans Sen Harry F Byrd D-Va was leading a determined fight for an amendment to clip the wings of the long-term loan provision The Byrd amendment would retain the five-year authority but require an- congressional appropriations lo finance it The Senate agreed to limit de- bale to seven hours on Byrd's proposal A group of Republicans were ready to reach ment with Foreign Relations Chairman 1 William Fulbright on some less stringent compromise In give Congress a continuing review over the new loan program This would make Byrd's chances of success even slimmer Other congressional The Senate Labor Committee was expected lo acl today on n to continue for one year federal aid lo federally impacted school districts The move to help facilities crowded by children of government ers was viewed as an indication that Senate Democratic leaders had given up hopes year of passing President Kennedy's full aid to education hill Chairman Estes said his Senate antitrust subcommittee would take another look al possible practices in the poultry industry The panel looked into poultry pricing and marketing in May Close Border To Halt Flight BERLIN The K a German Parliament today the government a blank check t take undisclosed measures to ha the record flight of refugees t West Berlin Parliament met a few hour after the announcement thai Mai shal Ivan who commande the troops of the Communist Wai saw Alliance until last year ha been appointed to command the 2 Russian divisions in East Gei many The Warsaw Pact is th Red bloc's equivalent of the West NATO alliance A Parliament resolution the government to prepar and execute all measures sary to prevent the organize head-hunting and slave tradin carried out from West and West Berlin and to the German Democratic Republic The measures the contemplated were not disclosed But they could lead to a ban on East Germany travel to Wes Berlin or closing of the East-West city border Communist police fire 01 the city border today against a fleeing refugee but he escapee and joined more than 1.000 others who reached the West during the day Communist police patrols rod elevated and subway trains bouni for West Berlin and pulled off sus refugees Trams were held at border stations until police no railway workers gave orders fol them to travel west Phoenix Woman Killed in Crash Of Stagecoach VIRGINIA CITY Mont UPI vehicle of another century a stagecoach carried an Arizona woman tourist to her death day in this restored old west g mining camp Mrs Ethel Victoria Gove j2 Phoenix was added to the list of persons killed on Montana lic highways The stagecoach was authentic restored from nearly 100 years gold was found in der Gulch in 1863 and brought men flocking lo what would be- come the Montana territory and Virginia City its capital It was used to carry tourists around the town restored as it was in the when it was a city ot miners and the out of Henry Plummer's highwaymen A bundle of laundry from a modern laundry truck fell in front of the team The horses shied and dragged the coach over an embankment Driver Henry Stiles managed lo hold the coach on the ment long enough for all hut Mrs Gove and Gail 15 Trail B.C to jump Then the tongue of the coach broke and the horses Mrs Gove and Miss were thrown out Miss re- a broken arm Mrs Gove died while being taken to a hospital apparently ot a heart attack An autopsy will be performed Troop Plea Rebuffed WASHINGTON UPH Gen Lauris Norstad supreme allied commander in has been rebuffed by the Defense ment on a request for tional troops for the Army in Will Extend Aid To Impacted Schools WASHINGTON UPI Senate Labor Committee quickly approved today a one-year sion of a measure which allots about million a year lo school districts overburdened by children of federal employes Some Democrats view the ex- tension of the impacted school hill as the death knell for this session of President Kennedy's dollar education package now hopelessly mired in the House Rules Committee Tiie committee moved witli speed in approving the stopgap education Sen Pat McNamara meanwhile served notice he would attempt to revive a small portion of the Kennedy school package when the impacted areas comes to the Senate floor McNamara told a reporter he would offer an amendment to tack on a two-year million gram of federal aid public grade and high schools for room construction only The one-year extension was sponsored by Committee man Lister Hill and Sen Wayne Morse Backers of the President's gram conceded that separate tion on the impacted areas would virtually close the door on chances for any further education legislation this session The administration's school aid package is bottled up in the House Rules Committee Some leading Democrats had to revive at least portions of the big education program by tacking it on to impacted areas aid Separate legislation in this field would foreclose any com- promise move Despite the gloomy prospects Sen Wayne Morse sponsor of the impacted areas refused to write off all for the Kennedy ion program He told a reporter that Senate lassage of a one-year extension of aid lo areas might prove to lie an inducement for The the House to go HI work on the remainder of the program An estimated school dis- located in each of the 50 slates benefit by federal aid to impacted areas Every member in Congress ha a slake in Ibe program extension local school would lose approximately million in federal assistance du ing the school term starting fall Five Cars Stolen At Phoenix Found At Rocky Point cars PHOENIX UPI Five nnd two cabin cruisers stolen in have turned up in Kocky oint Mex The Phoenix Police and the Auto Theft Bureau reported he find today The property was in the hands f persons who innocently the boats and cars m Auto Collides I With Submarine Sweden ITI An with a submarine Thursday The cur parked on si red IIP the harbor in this wrst rolled hill lamp anil herring anil struck the how Submarine irn tip nl the dock Smaller Latin Nations Seek Fund Share PUNTA DEL KSTE American diplomat sought today to heal a breach be- tween the larger and smalle nations of the hemisphere ove the goals of the dollar Alliance for Progress The smaller nations led b Uruguay balked Thursday at proposal worked out by the big Argentina Brazi Chile Mexico and a funds from the program for American development They expressed fears the large nations would receive treatment at tiie expense of thi smaller nations Uruguay pressed for a declare ion that would say specifically what the smaller nations wouk jet and include guarantees tha needs would me met The United States stayed in the of the dispute al though its original proposal was much along the lines of that pu forth by the five larger Some sort of a compromise was expected to come out of a series of informal conferences that start ed Thursday afternoon and were continuing today The Cuban delegation was edly excluded from closed al sessions Thursday This provoked Cuban Minister of Industries Ernesto Che vara to ask at one session er Cuba was or was not in the alliance Guevara himself led Cuba out of the alliance Tuesday in a long speech challenging the U.S plan lo match tiie accomplishments ol planning in Cuba over the next decade More Rain for Ariz Prediction Hy United International Scattered thunder showers are predicted for most of Arizona late today and tonight and for the next few days The weatherman says rains will be heavy in some lors Little change in temperature is predicted Temperatures arc be Iwo tn five degrees normal for the next few days Rains were heavy in numerous sectors laic Thursday Kingman re- inches while Fort chuca got 1.70 Guardsmen Set To eave for Summer Training Yuma National Guardsmen will I Governor's Day Review The com- ave at I p.m tomorrow will receive an award and for their annual training i trophy for efficiency in Europe was today U.S Suspends Move To Recognize Mongolia WASHINGTON The United States announced today it has suspended moves toward recognition of Communist Outer Mongolia because of the existing world situation More than 100 men will go by truck caravan stopping at Tucson before going on to Ft Huachuca near Ariz for two weeks of field combat training nance luring the period from Sept 1 lo May 31 The drill team ot Company K is also scheduled Jo perform ing the review It is the only such team in the National One of the company i f will receive 1 special The Irani has lakeii part in ing ceremonies on Governor's Day many functions in Yuma and Review Aug 19th throughout the slate and in fornia Yumans are invited to visit the local unit during the weekend of Aug 19th and 20th and to attend lie review Aug The will begin at 10 The unit is scheduled lo return to Yuma on Aug Storm Ear LA Brings Affected by Rain Fires i LOTS TO Morris of 131 South Avenue holds a letter he and some Yuma friends wrote to a buddy in Alaska The letter is to Frank Anderson son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Anderson of 248 10th Avenue Several of Frank's Yuma buddies chipped in a few paragraphs on the lengthy letter One question who's going To pay the Sun Staff Photo Khrushchev Repeats His Nuclear War Threats MOSCOW a Khrushchev said today that if war starts the Soviet Union v crush its enemies and dreds of millions of persons will lie in a nuclear conflict Khrushchev that the Soviet Union does not want war jut it will strike back with thing it has if attacked In our atomic age it is ness to threaten to unleash said If the West unleashes a war us Khrushchev told a S o v i e friendship ing in the Kremlin 51900 Damage n Crash At Intersection A collision yesterday caused in damages to vehicles but there were no serious At about noon a t driven by Furrow f Pageant Avenue was in a with n Pontiac n by William Ruth at the in- of Sth Street and venue According to police the chicle was going west on Slh treet when the car driven by uth pulled out from a stop sign fi 7th Avenue 51.200 in damages was me to the Furrow vehicle and to Ihc Ruth car was at about Ruth was cited for failure tiie right of way will deal crushing blows against the aggressors and all their bases We are threatened by those bases in lialy Greece Donmark Norway and other countries Predicts Communist World But at the same time chev offered lo settle the Berlin problem by negotiation assured his audience that we are against war and predicted that all mankind will go Communist without war We will not be the first to push the nuclear chev said Hut we are at- tacked we will deliver the ing rebuff II was liie third lime this week that Khrushchev has made a which ent threats to crush the West if var starts while combining threat with oilers to negotiate the and German terms have rejected in lie past by the ever LOS ANGELES An unusual thunderstorm swept over the Los Angeles metropolitan area early today causing fires ing out power and bringing the first measurable rain of the year The thunderstorm touched off scattered showers throughout Southern California and spread northward toward the San cisco Bay Area Los Angeles International port measured 21 inch of rain from the storm which awakened of residents as the un- usual sound of thunder rattled over the cily Burbank also re- ported 21 inch Heavy downpours occurred in some areas causing mudslides in the foothills which closed roads Lightning struck in several places in the city and in Angeles National Forest which borders it on the north Most spectacular of the fires resulting from lightning toils was at Beverly Hills School where a high oil derrick was struck The fire feeding on natural gas from the well was confined by firemen two hours after it began Damage was confined to the rick and did not spread to nearby school buildings In Lancaster about 50 miles north of here lightning Thursday night set three fires which de- a bouse burned 40 tons of hay and snapped a power pole which plunged the city inlo ness A spokesman for the Forest Service said lightning started at least 13 fires in Angeles Forest keeping firemen hopping from one blaze to All were small and easily contained with the help of the rain Seek To Oust France from North Africa NATIONS UPI group in the United Nations today to start appeared exerting ready heavy to Specialist Four Rudolph V Cabrera will receive the Army National Guard Outstanding listed Man trophy for the year of Lt David Jaramillo of Yuma received the same trophy for Company K 1st BG In- fantry will IK honored during the trikes Paralyze Chile's Industries SANTIAGO Chile Simultaneous strikes involving more than 22.000 workers today paralyzed Chile's mines the railroads and the Huachipato steel mill Troops took over railway lations as a precaution against strike violence hut there was no immediate government tion in the other walkouts i JFK Signs Cutting to Duty-Free Goods WASHINGTON dent Kennedy signed a law today cuts to the value of for- eign goods which each American tourist can back duty-free to this Tiie maximum now per The lower will take effect in 30 and remain n force until luly of ing students who return soon s u e r vacations abroad will get in under wire pressure to oust France ly from North Africa Following its successful to summon a special eral Assembly on Bizerte the group intends to demand debate on Algeria al the regular fall session of the assembly Ambassador U of Burma chairman of the group's standing committee on Algeria told United Press International Thursday night he planned to submit the request to Secretary General Dag late today He said 7 members had ami he expected other Thursday set Ihei Aug 21 i majority the 89 assembly France immediately announced Space Trip MOSCOW UPH Maj man Titov disclosed today he was ejected from his space ship H last Monday and re- lumed to earth by parachute at the end of his spin through space The statement made at a jammed news conference at Moscow University cleared up one of the major mysteries ig Soviet space flights Titov said he could have ed with the ship ling it manually but chose to put t on automatic controls and leave at a low altitude He said the ship landed nearby The cosmonaut first read a statement and then answered questions Several viet scientists also contributed disclosing these salient points the II enough ment and supplies remain aloft for 10 days if necessary Some Early Discomfort and vibration caused Titov discomfort in the first stage of the flight but he stood this well weightlessness the inner car and caused unpleasant sensa- including some loss of petite but he there were no permanent after effects n was designed for and could not be used for travel to other planets undoubtedly will low tiie world to witness a Soviet space launching and return time but not now because of the military potential launching rockets had excellent command of the ship through manual con- trols II carried hvo transmitters which projected deap pictures to earth of reaction principle Vostok n could have carried two men but it was designed only for one Trips to has far-reaching plans for further space flights by to near planets but is no set timetable as yet Studies of the Titov flight must first be completed and launching rockets and spaceship design adapted for interplanetary flight could give no particular advice to American astronauts because our flights are entirely different remains under strict medical observation so he will not be traveling anywhere for time But eventually he'd ike to visit other countries in- Hungary and Cuba Kennedy Calls Meeting To Talk On Berlin Crisis session it would the French Foreign Minister Maurice de told the French National Assembly For- eign Affairs Committee that the session would only produce an exchange of violent words tn useful i The United States objected to a i special session expressing a that it would imperil chances of private settlement France and Tunisia i The dispute was touched last month when Tunisia tried force the French out of the air and naval base with a l Secretary blockade and French troops re- acted with force Hundreds killed mostly Tunisians WASHINGTON UPH dent Kennedy called in Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a number of other advisers today to discuss Free World unity in the Berlin crisis The White House said full afternoon schedule on these items might delay his departure for a wekend at his Cod home in Hyannis Port Mass Rusk arrived from Paris day encouraged the unity and solidarity of Ihc NATO Rusk Says Negotiations Will Occur on Berlin WASHINGTON UPI tary of State Dean Rusk said after meeting with President today that negotiations with Russia on the Keriin will even though the timing is still uncertain I Boy Wins Boston I I Freckle King Title nW Billy ner o the loth annual Freckle contest Thursday B III y won easily the judges of the cal contest said because he even had freckles behind his rars Pierre Salinger told newsmen there would be were meetings later today ing out of the meeting with Kusk I who had been in Europe for a meeting ot Western foreign Llewellyn Thompson U.S to Russia returned from j Paris with Rusk and was to meet with Kennedy Salinger also said Kennedy has issued an executive order ing to Defense Secretary Robert S McNamara authority which Congress recently granted at the President's request for calling into active up to ready for year
